‘The Lost City of Z’ Is Visually Lush Epic About A Forgotten Explorer

A National Geographic-fied Downton Abbey meets Heart of Darkness is how best to describe this Brad Pitt-produced biopic of Edwardian era British explorer Percy Fawcett.

Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam plays Fawcett who in 1906, then a soldier, was recruited by The Royal Geographical Society of London, to map uncharted territory in Bolivia, and thus began his lifelong obsession to find an ancient civilisation in the Amazon.

Unlike his peers like Robert Peary and Ernest Shackleton — who led successful expeditions to the North and South Poles, respectively — Fawcett’s claim to fame is that he never found the fabled city and all he yielded were theories (which weren’t validated until recently).